"I don't want to go." Larissa whined when Kiki asked her to come with her to the practice.
"Why not?" Kiki asked.
"Because you're not on the team."
"You can go and we can laugh at how much they suck without me." Kiki dangled the idea in front of Larissa.
"I don't know... Why do you want me to go? I thought you found me annoying."
"I do." Kiki nodded, no need to lie, "But I don't want to go alone and you're the closest thing I have to a friend." Larissa smiled at that.
"Okay you win, lets go." Larissa closed her locker and headed towards the gym. Kiki breathed a sigh of relief, now she'd look a little less pathetic. They opened the doors to the gym and went to sit in the bleachers while the boys ran around and shot.
"Boys, Time to practice." Jack seperated them into two teams and had them play against each other.
"Wow..." Larissa frowned. "They really suck." Kiki nodded in agreement. They really were not good. Few people knew what they were doing and the ones that did kept getting cut off by the others. Kiki pressed a hand to her forehead when a new kid, Oscar Mann, knocked Jimmie to the ground. They were on the same team. They watched as they got worse as time went on.
"That's it." Kiki muttered getting up. Larissa stood, thinking they were leaving, but Kiki turned and walked over to Coach.
"Miss Evans." Coach nodded.
"You shouldn't put Donny on defense." She said, not even bothering with a hello. "He's too short, but he's fast, he'd be better on offense."
"I don't... well wait... Dion! Switch, you're on Offense now."
"You're two best shooters are Ji-Rocket man... and Umm... well I think Crawford's okay I guess. You're best defense would be West, Penn and Greene." Jack considered it, watching the guys play, most of them distracted by the fact that Kiki was looking at the papers in Coach's hand.
"What do you think about Lemeche?" He asked.
"Shouldn't be allowed out of the house without a helmet, but he'd be a good distraction and if, heaven forbid, he gets the ball he knows to throw it to someone in a matching uniform... I'm assuming." Kiki shrugged. They looked up at the boy in question, just in time to see him throw it, and no one was in that area to catch it. "Refer back to my helmet comment." Jack sighed.
"Lemeche, you don't throw the ball unless there's someone to catch it."
"Okay, maybe he'd just be better on the bench." Kiki gave him a few more tips on people and he gently tapped the eraser end of his pencil on his upper lip before speaking.
"Evans!" Kiki, who was on her way back up the bleachers, turned.
"Go get changed, you're on the team." Larissa squealed as Kiki took a moment to process what he'd said.
"Wait... seriously?" She asked.
"Coach... you cna't do that." Jimmie tried to argue.
"I'm the coach Zara, I can do what I want and I want Evans on the team, meanwhile the rest of you over here." Kiki was already running out of the room down to the girl's locker room and getting her gym clothes. She ran back up, tying her hair into a messy bun as she went.
"You took Lemeche's spot." Donny glared.
"You'll thank me later." Kiki smiled at him.
"Okay Evans, you know what to do." Seeing as she'd helped him with it, yeah she knew. She went and stood in front of Rocket Man and smirked at him.
"You're not gonna distract me this time Kiki." He said her name in a mocking voice.
"I wouldn't even try, You're too smart for that. By the way, you're shoe's untied." Jimmie looked down as Kiki jumped for the ball. She wasn't tall, she knew that, but she could distract people and that was her trick. She heard Jimmie curse as she ran off after the ball. By the end of practice most of the other guys were lagging, tired, while Kiki and Rocket Man practically killed each other. Larissa had apparently called everyone to say the Kiki Evans Fan Club was back on because Jessica, Jax, Michelle and everyone else sat in the bleachers cheering whenever Kiki got the ball.
"Evans, Rocket Man, practice is over." Coach announced watching as the two slumped. They were both sweaty and out of breath. "Hit the showers." He ordered. Kiki ran down to the locker room and pulled her shirt over her head.
"Hey Evans," The door opened and Jimmie stuck his head in. Kiki placed her hands on her hips, happy she wore under shirts.
"Yeah?" She asked when he didn't continue.
"Umm.... Right, glad you're on the team." He blushed and closed the door. Kiki grinned and undressed, getting into the showers, flip flops on her feet. She showered waching all the sweat and dirt from her body and stepped out, grabbing a towel to wrap around her body.
"Bangkok, Oriental setting, And the city don't know that the city is getting, The creme de la creme of the chess world in a, Show with everything but Yul Brynner, Time flies -- doesn't seem a minute, Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it, All change -- don't you know that when you, Play at this level there's no ordinary venue, One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster, The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free, You'll find a god in every golden cloister, And if you're lucky then the god's a she, I can feel an angel sliding up to me." She sang doing a little spin. She opened her locker and pulled out her clothes.
She didn't bother to brush or dry her hair, just pulled it back into the ponytail, and headed outside. She pulled her I-pod out of her pocket and stuck the earbuds in each ear. She couldn't get ahold of anyone to pick her up so she was going to walk. She hadn't gotten very far when a pathetic old car pulled up beside her.
"Hey Princess, need a ride?" Jimmie was in the drivers seat. Kiki glared at him for a moment before sighing. It was one heck of a walk from school to her place. Maybe she'd conceed to Sharpay teaching her to drive, but for now..."
"Fine." The door opened and Donny got out. Kiki stared, waiting for him to get in back.
"Nuh-uh, as the best friend I get front seat."
"As the one with longer legs I get front seat." Kiki had a good three inches on Donny.
"Give me a kiss and I'll think about it." Donny winked. Kiki smiled and him and leaned forward to kiss him, but instead grabbed his ear and pulled the seat forward, shoving him into the back. Jimmie laughed as Donny rubbed his ear and Kiki pushed the seat back, getting in.
"Nice." He grinned. "Where do you live." Kiki rattled off the address and he stared at her a moment.
"What?" She asked.
"That's the rich part of town."
"No kidding. Rocket Man, my family kind of is rich." Kiki nodded. It was common knowledge.
"Well I know but... I've never actually been there. The neighborhood I mean."
"It's not that impressive, big houses, people overcompensating for the fact that they don't really have the time to like their families so they buy houses big enough that they can avoid each other all together if they so choose." Kiki drew her knees up to her chest and rested her chin on them.
"Girl, you don't even need the leg room." Donny complained.
"Yeah, but I still won." Kiki grinned.